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The Trump Campaign Rallies Lack Real Value
Turn them off! To the media, turn the President press conferences off!
If I wrote this in a piece of fiction even a year ago, you rightfully so would have thought this was unbelievable. Most editors would have said no, remove that. If anything, it would have been in a piece of dystopian fiction. Americans know you can trust the president even if you disagree with him politically. However, watching President Donald Trump's daily briefing is akin to watching a descent into madness.
The president can not his political rallies in the age of Corona. Those rallies were already bordering on the ramblings of a man who wants to be a dictator. They had elements common to any well known authoritarian. Attacks on the media and Democrats were common fodder, which his base loved. These same exact attacks have come to the White House in the midst of a global crisis, and are exactly where we are during those pressers. They are campaign rallies.
These are long, at times way too long. Compared to governors such as Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom, they lack substance. We don’t learn anything new, and what we get out of them is a lot of spite, hate, half baked ideas, and conspiracies. We even get things like “I can order the states to do things, such as open their economy.” This is not about science, but about money and the economy. He knows…